Jim repaired his CV and borrowed a shaft off of another competitor and was back in the competition, he completed the stage in good time.

Martin Stainer had Jims spare shafts and as Martin is no longer competing in the competition he was not allowed to get them off of his truck as this would be deemed as outside assistance and he would be penalised for it, I beleive this is also the reason that Jim has not been able to change his steering box and as his has a Disco 2 box noone has one he can borrow.

On the next stage Jim and Adrian were first out on the last winch out of the stage they ran all of the winch line out and it came off of the drum this cost them time and the completed the section in 18 minutes.  Paul and Nev wre next up they drove the stage without winching in 8 minutes.

Next stage was a tricky one and again Jim and Adrian went first they DNF the stage and incurred a 20 minute penalty.  Paul and Nev used 5 minutes of the allocated 20 minutes for the stage to walk it and decided they would sackj the stage and they too incurred a 20 minute penalty. 

The competitors are not allowed to walk the stages before the time start they are going into them blind. 

The are going back to camp now for some rest before they go out to do another few night stages. Still all very positive and moral high!!!